Lauren Conrad's Must-Know Trick For Keeping Your Lippie In Place

Lauren Conrad's Must-Know Trick For Keeping Your Lippie In Place

From her laid-back, effortless style to a fresh, ahead-of-the-trend beauty aesthetic, Lauren Conrad is a girl after our own heart. So, each week, the born-and-bred California girl and editor-in-chief of LaurenConrad.com will share with us her insider secrets and personal musings. Plus, check out her visually stunning guest pinning here! Here, Lauren shows us how to get supremely kissable lips!

Your makeup is the last thing you want to worry about when you’re on a date — especially if it’s one that you are nervous or excited about. While eyeliner and mascara should stay in their place (unless you’re going on some really adventurous underwater excursion), lipstick is another story. Oftentimes, you will start off the night with a perfect pout, but before you know it, your lipstick has decided to magically disappear — and reappear on the rim of your champagne glass. So, to help perfect your pout, I’ve put together a step-by-step guide for kissable lips. Check it out below, and get ready to pucker up!

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Exfoliate & Moisturize
First, you will need to use a lip scrub to exfoliate any dead skin and smooth out the surface of your lips. This will leave your pout ready for a rich lip balm (which we get to next). Some great scrubs include Sara Happ The Lip Scrub Brown Sugar Exfoliator and my DIY Brown Sugar Olive Oil Scrub. Keep your lips smooth and hydrated by applying a good balm every night before you go to bed, for a week leading up to your date.

Line
Once your lips are fully exfoliated and moisturized, you will need to add definition and shape with a lip liner that matches the hue of your lipstick. This will also help prevent feathering later on — meaning your lipstick won’t run outside of the lines.

Tint
Now it’s time to fill it all in with color. Choose a tint that’s a pretty close match to the color of your lipstick. A lip tint will essentially “stain” your lips, so even if you are eating and drinking throughout the night, there will be some color on your lips at all times. Tints also work really well after your lips are exfoliated, so don’t forget step one!

Seal
Your last step for getting smooch-certified lips is, literally, sealing the deal. This is a little trick I use myself: After you apply your lipstick, hold a tissue over your lips and lightly dust translucent powder over the tissue. The powder will ever-so-lightly fall on your lips through the tissue, and it will set your lip color the same way it sets your makeup when you use it on your face. For this step, I recommend Bare Minerals Mineral Veil or Maybelline Finishing Translucent Powder.

Now that you know how to get your lips smooch-worthy, just remember my lipstick tricks — and, of course, have fun! Do you have any tips for getting kissable lips? Leave them in the comments below & I’ll be sure to check them out!